Probity-Improbity

Morality regulates the acts of man as a private individual; honour, his acts as a public man. (Esteban Echeverria)

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of our own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world. (Emerson)

Happiness is not the end of life: character is. (Henry Ward Beecher)

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. (Samuel Johnson)

I could not love thee, dear, so much, loved I not honour more. (Richard Lovelace)

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honour. (George Bernard Shaw)

Even honour and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast. (Tacitus)

The corruption of every government begins nearly always with that of principles. (Montesquieu)

The value of culture is its effect on character. It avails nothing unless it ennobles and strengthens that. Its use is for life. Its aim is not beauty but goodness. (W Somerset Maugham)

A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candour. (Agnes Repplier)

Honesty is a good thing but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control. If you are not honest at all everybody hates you, and if you are absolutely honest, you get martyred. (Don Marquis)

All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candour. (Walt Whitman)